Federal Judge Declines to Intervene for Migrants Deported to Ghana
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said her hands were “tied” with regard to the migrants, even though they held protective orders, in another victory for President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said her hands were “tied” with regard to the migrants, even though they held protective orders, in another victory for President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Plaintiffs accused the Trump administration of using so-called third-country deportations to violate court-ordered protections for migrants, echoing the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
The case of Orville Etoria highlights a tension in President Trump’s deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad and detained indefinitely.
Afghanistan was on a timid recovery path. But four years after the Taliban retook power, it has been badly hit by aid cuts and an inflow of two million Afghans…
The move came three days after Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was freed from custody in the federal criminal case that was filed against him in Nashville.
The East African country said it had reached a deal to accept an unspecified number of deportees, who would not include people with criminal records or unaccompanied minors.
The country is the latest African nation to agree to take in migrants from the United States.
The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.
Afghans being forced out of Iran are grappling with an uncertain future in Afghanistan, where widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women and girls await.
Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”